Spring Break Cont.

For Habitat for Humanity a few of my friends and I helped clean up a wall that's in bad shape and help prep a house for a family in need by sodding the backyard and front yard and cleaning up the home.

What I did was help the neighborhood by cleaning up this beat up, graffitied, dirty wall by washing it down, patching up the holes, and giving it a new paint job.

Before the clean up

During the painting

After all the hard work

It felt great to help out even in a little way like painting a beat up wall. The community was appreciative for the hard work we did by thanking us as the drove by or even giving us cokes or treats. It was a whole sum feeling that I was doing something that made them happy. It not about the praise or the treats, it was about the relief and high spirits these people got when they saw a simple wall being cleaned up.

Yea! Program

For the second week of The Yea! Program. My partner and I decided to show the children the 1st step of animation and show them about story- boarding. We taught them how a story -board works and what is its function in making a movie. The children seem to love it and we had a lot of fun teaching them.

We brought in an example of a story-board (or most likely a simple version) of a cat attacking the ball and the smacking into a chair.

The children seem to enjoy coming up with ideas. Most of them used nursery rhymes or sports events. Here are what the children came up with.

A dog riding a skateboard up a hill...

Insy Winsy Spider...

A guy doing skateboard tricks...

Remix of Humpty Dumpty...

Original Humpty Dumpty

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star..

Jack and Jill...

Yea!! Program

For my whole year I will be working with a volunteer group called The Yea!!! Program. I help teachers, from a local school, with any particular project they want to do but are not sure how to execute them and teach little kids about art.

My partner and I are go to Gocio Elementary to help out once a week with the art department teacher. For the first semester we are teaching the children the basics of animation. The art teacher either lets us teach the 4th graders or the 5th graders depending on the level of the project. For the first class we taught was the 4th grader. And, we showed them the motion of the body. My partner brought in his wired sculptures that show a person jumping over a wall. once we showed the children the idea of what we are doing with them, we broke them up in teams of 4 and had them do one movement of what ever scene they chose. They seem to really enjoy that project and learned a lot about how the body moves.

Here are what the children did for there projects.....

A person doing a back flip

A person jumping over a wall and landing in the splits

A person lifting weights

A person roller skating

A person kicking a soccer ball

A person doing a hand stand

A person throwing a football